When are the glory days?

Charlie’s brother is a major college football player. He clearly will have what Charlie describes as “glory days”, those times where he will look back at his football playing an be able to recall times what are worthy of stories.
Charlie’s dad played college and high school baseball and he has “glory days” and he tells about his homerun ball in his high school state tournament game back when he was a sophomore. The best part about it is that he never has to exaggerate to make the story glorious; he just has to tell it.
When Charlie looks at he dad’s yearbook photograph, he sees a person who is happy and secure as well as rugged and satisfied. He wonders if he will have glory days and then realizes that he may actually be living them right now. If that is true, then he is happy about it, but sad too that they are not a glorious as his dad’s stories.
He does however think that one day, his own kids will look at his yearbook photo and think that he was much happier then than they ever will be, but he promises himself that he will tell them that they are in their glory days and are as happy now as he was in those photos. Your glory days are what you make of them.